Tag: pull
Birth of Lean Review – Free download Taiichi Ohno Chapter
A lengthy post today that’s been in the pipeline for a while. The Lean Enterprise Institute have published an English translation of The Birth of Lean, recounting the experiences of the early Toyota practitioners, and how their experiences shaped what became Lean methods and thinking. The introduction and first chapter are available as a free [...]
Categories: Reviews, Thought Pieces.
Tags: Deming, Kanban, Lean, Manufacturing, product variety, Public Sector, pull, standard work, Taiichi Ohno, Taylorism, Toyota, TWI, WIP
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Lean and inventory misconceptions
I was interested to find an article in this month’s Logistics & Transport Focus headed “No more lean times: why inventory is not waste and warehouses add value”. The author, Steve Sordy, has chosen a title that is a kind of teasing of the more dogmatic of lean devotees – British culture has little patience [...]
Categories: Thought Pieces.
Tags: distribution centre, Inventory Management, Kanban, Lean, Little's Law, pull, Warehousing, waste, Womack & Jones
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